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Example sentences for "once and"

  • When I explained matters to him he seemed pleased, said he could fix that easy enough; we would get married at once and claim a secret marriage for some months past.

  • I told him to hustle out and get the section foreman, and gave him an order to take his gang and car and go to the bridge and back at once and make a full report.

  • All the devils flew away at once and left me alone, naked with my conscience.

  • He called on me once and I like him very much.

  • A doctor was called at once and he remained with me from eight o'clock until noon before I became comfortable.

  • I will write my London address on it, and if you ever hear of her, cable me at once and I'll take the next steamer for America.

  • It simply read, "Blennerhassett accepted; will be put in type at once and issued by the first of November, perhaps sooner.

  • Uncle Ike has grown tired all at once and won't read to me nor write for me.

  • November 9th, it was cancelled, and instead we were ordered to push forward at once and establish a new outpost line East of Sains du Nord--a small town through which the Cavalry had passed in the morning.

  • The shelling was very heavy, and he was hit almost at once and wounded in many places.

  • She replied, "Every day he cometh to visit me once and no more: he would woo me to his love and he sueth that I take him to spouse in lieu of thee and that I forget thee and be consoled for the loss of thee.

  • In a wild ferment of remorse for his brother's sin, the unhappy painter sat down at once and penned a letter of abject self-humiliation to Elma Clifford.

  • In spite of her promise, all woman that she was, she couldn't resist sitting down at once and inditing a hurried note to Granville Kelmscott.

  • We've all of us got it, and we all of us say, at once and unanimously--it was Sir Gilbert Gildersleeve.

  • I desire you to go to your room at once and read it.

  • All the mists of sleep cleared away at once and he sat up, healthy, strong and hungry.

  • His automatic was out at once and he rained bullets upon the treacherous machine.

  • They tell me, strong and well, again, to come at once and join my comrades of the Strangers, who are fighting the enemy.

  • Every one, except some of the most indifferent, was on their feet at once and ran to the door, to the windows, their mouths full and napkins in their hand.

  • He started off at once and began to relate his story with the denoument.

  • These are admitted at once and it is all over in a minute.

  • We were a great river swinging without knowing why, in one direction and only interrupted, once and again, by the motor lorries that rattled along, the soldiers shouting to us and waving their rifles, and we replying with cheers.

  • They raised if once and again a melancholy little tune that was more wail than anything else.

  • So they weave for themselves with words and for a while inhabit a palace of delights, temple at once and theatre, where they fill the round of the world's dignities, and feast with the gods, exulting in Kudos.

  • There is a certain attitude combative at once and deferential, eager to fight yet most averse to quarrel, which marks out at once the talkable man.

  • Talking of Rockstro, he scolded me once and said he wondered how I could have done such a thing as to call Handel "one of the greatest of all musicians," referring to the great chords in Erewhon.

  • They differ from the rest of us in this that, when the moment for rising comes, they rise at once and instinctively.

  • The girl is removed from Thorpe Ambrose already; and the whole project of the elopement is blown to the winds at once and forever.

  • She had satisfied him, at once and forever, that the one place in her heart which he could hope to occupy was the place of a friend.

  • Allan's future depends on his separation from us at once and forever.

  • The young man had disgraced himself beyond all redemption; had left his home an outlaw; and had been thereupon renounced by his father at once and forever.

  • The interview over, Mrs. Milroy's suspicions fastened at once and immovably on her husband's mother.

  • Give up that key, or I'll go at once and get a warrant against you for theft.

  • He expected her to turn at once and complain of him to her mistress, but to his disappointment, she rode on.

  • Then I order you to change your course at once and return to London.

  • On every side of him were doors and, once and again, gas flared above him.

  • That letter had come this very morning and Peter had intended to go at once and inquire.

  • And to begin with, vanish from here at once and completely.

  • Next morning, while the children were at play, she said to me: "Felix, you and Asper must leave this place at once and be on your way.

  • My deduction is, disappear at once and completely.

  • The formal salutation began at once and I noticed that the Emperor said something personal to Vedius and that Vedius stepped out of the line of salutants and took up a position behind the Emperor on his left.

  • The woman quieted at once and seemed to sink to sleep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came into; ecclesiastical affairs; few minutes; gazing down; great battle; hard road; little broth; much mistaken; once again; once asked; once became; once before; once commenced; once established; once knew; once more; once ordered; once resolved; once sent; once that; once the; once turned; once wrote; slightly pubescent; suddenly said; vertical section